Penichros means “poor” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3998 — mebukah (“perplexity”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3998 πεντιχρός (pentichros) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. pentichros (pen-tikh-ros') adj. 1. necessitous [prolongation from the base of G3993] It has 4 linked Bible usages across 3 books. Visible English usage signals include poor. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
pentichros (pen-tikh-ros') adj. 1. necessitous [prolongation from the base of G3993] KJV: poor Root(s): G3993
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3998. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
poor
Usage: πενιχρός, -ά, -όν (πένομαι, see: πένης) [in LXX: Exo.22:25 (עָנִי), Pro.28:15 29:7 (דַּל) * ;] chiefly in Comic poets and late prose (but Plato, Rep., 578 A), = πένης, needy, poor: Luk.21:2 (for ex. in π., see MM, xix).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render pentichros, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G3998 (πεντιχρός) appears 3 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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1 indexed usage in New Testament.
And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites.
3 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And if thou shouldest lend money to thy poor brother who is by thee, thou shalt not be hard upon him, thou shalt not exact usury of him.
First 4 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3998.
And if thou shouldest lend money to thy poor brother who is by thee, thou shalt not be hard upon him, thou shalt not exact usury of him.
And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3998, grouped by book.
Penichros (Strong's G3998) is a Greek word most simply glossed "poor". pentichros (pen-tikh-ros') adj. 1. necessitous [prolongation from the base of G3993]
This page currently indexes 4 linked usages for Strong's G3998 across 3 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3998 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as poor. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 3 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G3998, with linked reader references where each row is available.